Happy 40TH Anniversary America..."The Eagle Has Landed"

I got married the same year, so happy anniversary to me, too..

40 years! Already!?! Sheesh, I remember all us kids in a clump on the family room floor fully prepared for the big event with our Tang and Space Food Sticks.

I remember Cronkite looking like he would cry or pass out or something; meanwhile, I stared at the TV and wondered why this was all such a big deal. I took a gulp of Tang and went back to my Etch-a-Sketch.

Once I thought Tang delicious and it was a sometime treat but usually (uck) it was real OJ.

Well, it was a big deal! I was waiting for em' to be sucked into the crust of the moon. Come on....I was a kid.

I pulled my old newspapers out - 7/21/69 (Land on moon) and 7/25/69 (splashdown).

The Monday paper (7/21) wasn't too bad. The Friday paper (7/25)... I still remember being extremely mad. 138 pages! The size of a Sunday paper! I had 77 dailies to deliver that day! I couldn't get but 20 papers into my bag at one time.

Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sheesh. New 1969 Pontiac GTO. $3200!

I took the papers to the morning meeting this morning. The mission control Ground Controller supervisor also had a Cleveland Plain Dealer paper route.

I put the papers in the historical mission control room on one of the consoles so people on the houston space center tour can see them from the viewing room.

Tom

We went to the MOON????


I coulda had a V-8.

*shoves DM into a chair*

Be quiet.

Look at your fan pic of Pat Sajak.

Can I buy a vowel???



*blowing spitwads at AMN*



I too, remember our trusted Walter Cronkite reporting about the moonwalk. Who can we trust NOW???

I was probably getting a diaper change or was being fed during the moon landing. (I was born in May of 1969)

Watches LMN launch DiM in a V8 bottle rocket, whilst juice spurts from all her orifices..